New No-Cost Weekly Coaching Series

By Brad Carroll on February 5th, 2012

At Dakno, we always strive to provide agents with resources to help them get the most out of their marketing efforts. That’s why when Michael Russer (a.k.a. Mr. Internet) and Bob Corcoran, of Corcoran Consulting & Coaching, came to us with the idea to offer free weekly webinars to agents, we jumped on board. Free ... [Continue Reading]

New AgentBackdoor Toolbar Launched – Editing Your Website has Never Been Easier!

By Brad Carroll on November 4th, 2011

Google announced yesterday that they have updated their algorithm to put more emphasis on fresh content. In other words, if updated, original content wasn’t a priority before, it better be now. The good news is that, as of today, Dakno is making it even easier than ever to keep your site up-to-date with fresh content. ... [Continue Reading]

Websites for Bikes – For Each Real Estate Website Purchased, We’ll Donate a Shiny New Bike to a Need-Worthy Child

By Brad Carroll on October 19th, 2011

Summer is over and the holiday’s are quickly approaching. This is a great time to stop and be thankful for what we have and consider how we can help others. With this in mind, Dakno Marketing has decided to partner with The Triangle Spokes Group, a non profit, whose goal is to provide brand new ... [Continue Reading]

5 Easy Tips to Uploading Optimized Real Estate Videos to YouTube!

By Bobby Carroll on September 22nd, 2011

When you take the time to storyboard your neighborhood/condo building video, or information-based “how to” video or a listing, actually take the video, edit the video and upload your video isn’t the goal to attract as many eyeballs as possible to the video? Don’t you want home buying and selling consumers to see you as ... [Continue Reading]

Dirty Words You Should Never Mention in Real Estate!

By Bobby Carroll on August 30th, 2011

Recently Brad and I completed our North Carolina post licensing classes to become full real estate brokers. Having been a licensed real estate “agent” in NC since 1985, I feel it’s important to be able to relate to our Dakno clients. Having closed many Raleigh real estate transactions, it’s nice to say “we’ve walked a ... [Continue Reading]

You’ve Launched Your Real Estate Website, Now What?

By Bobby Carroll on June 28th, 2011

So what’s the next step after designing, developing and launching your real estate website? It’s all about content building. Obviously you want people to see your website (organic traffic) – the key is to build a portal to get home buyers and sellers to your site and then show so much value that they come ... [Continue Reading]

Have a Facebook Fan Page? Make Sure You’re NOT Doing This…

By Brad Carroll on April 28th, 2011

What’s the worst thing you can do when someone visits your Facebook Page? The answer may surprise you. Send them to your wall. That’s right. When it comes to converting visitors into fans, the wall ranks dead last in effectiveness. Why? If you think about it, the answer is pretty logical. Web visitors are always ... [Continue Reading]

Dakno Real Estate Web Design Loves Posterous!

By Bobby Carroll on February 14th, 2011

This being Valentine’s Day, I felt it appropriate to show some Dakno Real Estate Web Site design love for our friends at Posterous! Talk about instant gratification! Just publish something of great humor, a unique photo, or offer up a helpful tip and watch the page views go up. The Posterous Community – An Eclectic ... [Continue Reading]

Optimizing Your Tech Savvy Agent Profile

By Bobby Carroll on January 4th, 2011

Unless you have been living under a rock, no doubt you’ve heard all the buzz surrounding what Chris Smith and his Tech Savvy Agent team has been up to of late. Chris has been seriously rockin’ webinars, Twitter, Facebook and generally doing a fantastic job empowering RE.net. No wonder the guy was recognized among the ... [Continue Reading]

Easy Ways to Increase Traffic to Your Real Estate Blog

By Brad Carroll on October 14th, 2010

So, you’ve just finished that killer blog post. Since you’ve taken the time to slave over the content, it’s now time to bring eyeballs to your blog. After all, there’s not much point in creating content if no one reads it. That’s where blog promotion comes in. Promoting your blog allows you to not only ... [Continue Reading]

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